Re: Sharing a com port across a network

From: at (Peter)
Date: 06/23/04 

Date: Wed, 23 Jun 2004 15:42:59 +0100

COM Ports cannot be shared. You would need to create and run a program
on the machine with the COM port with which a remote machine could
communicate and to which the instructions for the cutting machine
could be transferred acoss the network.

On Wed, 23 Jun 2004 09:22:20 -0400, "Blankman" <none@microsoft.com>
wrote:

>I've got a good one for ya. We're running a sign software on one machine
>(machine A) that connects to a cutting machine via the COM port. This
>machine is connected to another machine (machine B) by a crossover cable so
>we can share files and hopefully cutting functions. The machine the cutter
>is connected to (machine A) doesn't have the cutter installed as a printer
>but rather the software actually looks for the connection at the com port
>and loads the drivers upon being opened. Is there a way to share a com port
>on machine A so I can tell my software on machine B that the cutter is
>connected remotely?
>
>Thanks for any insight you can provide.
>

Please respond to the Newsgroup, so that others may benefit from the exchange.
Peter R. Fletcher

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